104 permit-less buildings issued notices of violation

By Aileen P. Refuerzo

BAGUIO CITY -- A total of 104 buildings without permits have been issued notices of violation by the City Buildings and Architecture Office following its pronouncement on the crackdown on illegal structures effective September 1, 2023.
Unpermitted structures number about 96,000, based on CBAO’s census.
    CBAO assistant department head engineer Stephen Capuyan said the structures issued NOVs were all located in DPS Compound.
    The office first conducted its program encouraging residents to legalize the status of their buildings by securing building permit in compliance with the Presidential Decree (PD 1096) or the National Building Code of the Philippines.
    Under the program, building owners were notified through letters of the status of their buildings and of the urgency for them to apply and process their permits within a period.
    The letter also informed them that failure to comply would lead to the issuance of a notice of violation and commence the proceedings prescribed under the building code.
    Building Code of the Philippines prohibits construction of structures without building permits and violators are liable to pay an administrative fine of P10,000.
    The CBAO emphasized that payment of the fine however does not mean that owners of the structures would no longer need to secure the building permit.

 “The notion that they already are exempt from getting a permit once they paid the fine is wrong.  They still have to get a permit even if they have paid the fine,” Capuyan said.

Architect Homer Soriano, chief of the building management division of the CBAO, said issuance of NOV will continue in the coming days.  Target barangays are Engineer’s Hill, Cabinet Hill, Marcoville, M. Roxas, Imelda Village and others where the building permit campaign was also conducted.

 

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LGUS, candidates have 3 days to clean up poll mess – DILG

By Christian Crow Maghanoy

ALL local government units (LGUs) and candidates were told by the Dept. of the Interior and Local Government to remove and dispose of all campaign materials within three days.
    "Cleanup of election litter is the first order of business after the polls. Aside from incumbent LGU officials, we urge all candidates, winners and non-winners alike, to take it upon themselves to lead in the removal of their campaign materials," Interior Secretary Eduardo Año told the media Wednesday.
    In an advisory to local chief executives (LCEs), Año urged the proper disposal of election propaganda materials in line with environmental laws and local ordinances and regulations against illegal dumping, open burning, and littering.
    He also prods the utilization of barangay (village) and LGU material recovery facilities to collect and restore reusable materials as well as in coming up with innovative and safe strategies to recycle or upcycle reusable campaign waste materials.
    Año pointed out that campaign propaganda made of plastics and other nonbiodegradable materials, if improperly disposed of, may have detrimental effects on public health and the environment.
    "Impose the responsibility to the organizers of political activities, to ensure that waste generated by their activities, and their attendees will be properly managed and disposed of," he said in the advisory to LCEs.
    "Hinihimok din po natin ang ating mga kababayan na makiisa sa cleanup drive ng kanilang LGUs at barangay (We also urge our countrymen to join the clean-up drive of the LGU and barangay). We have done our part in exercising our right to vote. Let's continue to participate in governance through our simple ways of cleaning up our neighborhood from election litter," he said.
    Año said campaign propaganda made of plastics and other nonbiodegradable materials, if improperly disposed of, may have detrimental effects on public health and the environment.
    He said that section 10 of Republic Act (RA) 9003, known as the "Ecological Solid Waste Management Act," says that pursuant to Republic Act (RA) 7160 or the "Local Government Code," the LGUs shall be primarily responsible for the implementation and enforcement of the provisions of RA 9003 within their respective jurisdictions.
 

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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION

Notice is hereby given that the Amended Articles of Incorporation of Green Environment and Rural Development Radio Foundation Inc. shortening the existence and thereby dissolving the corporation as of July 2, 2020 has been approved by the said corporation in a meeting held on July 2, 2020.

All persons having claim against said corporation are requested to present the same at the principal office of the corporation at #22 Bagay Road, Caritan Centro, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan for immediate settlement.

This will serve as a notice to all parties of the legal dissolution of the said corporation

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